Guidelines on how to run a successful Islamic Society

ISCC Project Proposal 2009-10

Getting students involved in ISOCs:

• Are students lazy?
• Characteristics of a successful ISoc
• Do’s and Don’ts of getting people involved
• oLeadership and representation
• oThoughts from ex-students
• Tips to getting students more involved
• Focus on sisters’ involvement

Powerpoint Presentation

Powerpoint presentation on project management.

Contents:

What is a project? What makes a project fail?

Powerpoint Presentation: Documents that a treasurer should keep throughout the year

FOSIS guide to recruiting new isoc members

The key to attracting and retaining members is a successful freshers’ week. Different approaches work for different Islamic Societies (ISocs) but here are a series of suggestions of events and strategies that have been found to be very effective!

Guidelines on how to run a successful Islamic Society

• Approaching a potential sponsor
• Sponsorship Contract
• Maintenaning a good relationship with sponsors
• Documents that a treasurer should keep throughout the year.

• Writing a sponsorship proposal
• What should be included in a sponsorship contract
• Maintaining a good relationship with a sponsor

Ever wondered how your Isoc could raise some funds, or how you should manage your finances professionally? This Finance guide assists you in all matters of finance relating to your Islamic Society. It also comes with a CD, given out at Isoc Training sessions this year.

Any further questions, contact vp.islamicsocieties@fosis.org.uk or your regional committee.

Meetings play a central role in the life of Islamic Societies. This document gives some guidelines as to how to have effective and productive meetings.

Previous President of Bristol Isoc and founder of website www.productivemuslim.com, Mohammed Faris shares with us his ideas of a successful Islamic Society. Mohammed Faris has also taken part in FOSIS Isoc training, delivering sessions on "managing your islamic society" and "spheres of the isoc world."

At FOSIS we realise that Islamic Societies come across a list of challenges when running their ISoc. This document lists challenges that people might come across and identifies way of overcoming them in practical and informative ways.